Thomas Eric Duncan

KABC-TV - 08 Oct 2014Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from his home in Liberia, though he showed no symptoms when he left for the United States. He arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill several days later. His condition worsened during the weekend from serious ...

Huffington Post - 06 Oct 2014
Here's everything we know so far about Thomas Eric Duncan, the first patient to be diagnosed with Ebola in the United States. We traced his journey to the U.S. — from his arrival in Dallas on Sept. 20, to his first signs of symptoms on Sept. 25, to ...

New York Times - 01 Oct 2014
The man who flew to Dallas and was later found to have the Ebola virus, identified by Liberian officials as Thomas Eric Duncan, helped Mr. Williams carry his sister, Marthalene Williams, 19, who was stricken by Ebola, to and from a hospital last month.

Vanity Fair - 24 Apr 2015
In an adaptation from her new book, My Spirit Took You In, author Louise Troh recalls the day her longtime love Thomas Eric Duncan arrived in Dallas from Liberia, where she had left nine children behind to make a better life in America—and where ...

USA TODAY - 18 Oct 2014Thomas Eric Duncan, the first person to die from Ebola in the United States, spent five hours in the emergency department of a Dallas hospital before being discharged early Sept. 26, just a half-hour after his temperature hit 103 degrees, according to ...

NBCNews.com - 20 Oct 2014
Midnight (1 a.m. ET) marked the end of 21 days since the diagnosis of Thomas Eric Duncan, who was treated and died at the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas. Ebola has a 21-day incubation period, and when a case is confirmed officials monitor ...

People Magazine - 19 Oct 2014Thomas Eric Duncan was remembered Saturday as a big-hearted and compassionate man whose virtues may have led to his infection with Ebola in his native Liberia and subsequent death as the first victim of the disease in the United States. Family and ...

Washington Post - 12 Nov 2014
By the time Thomas Eric Duncan was diagnosed with Ebola at Texas Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas on Sept. 28, he had already been sent home once from the hospital with antibiotics. Though he told staff he had traveled to West Africa, they didn't think ...

NBCNews.com - 10 Oct 2014
The first person to die of Ebola in the U.S., Thomas Eric Duncan, was sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital with a fever of 103 degrees before he was admitted for treatment two days later, a spokeswoman for the victim's family said Friday.

People Magazine - 28 Apr 2015
Dallas resident Louise Troh is breaking her silence on the death of her fiancé Thomas Eric Duncan – the first person to die of the Ebola virus in America on Oct. 8, 2014. “I don't like thinking about it,” Troh, 55, tells PEOPLE of the events that ...

CNN - 08 Oct 2014
Several Ebola patients treated in the United States have survived, but the first person ever diagnosed with the deadly virus on American soil didn't. Thomas Eric Duncan died Wednesday at a Texas hospital, 10 days after he was admitted. "Mr. Duncan ...

TIME - 13 Oct 2014
Lorraine Sherman Mason was born and raised in Liberia, and lives in Bellaire, Texas. She is the executive director of the Martha M. Wright Foundation, a freelance writer and author of Sassywood Man, A Journey of the Self and Yes, Jesus Loves Me, ...

TIME - 20 Oct 2014Thomas Eric Duncan, the Liberian national who unknowingly traveled to the United States carrying Ebola, died of the virus ten days after he was admitted to Texas Presbyterian Hospital. In the intervening period, Duncan was cared for by nurses who ...

NPR - 09 Oct 2014
He liked to joke around with his neighbors. And he always gave them a helping hand. The neighbors that Thomas Eric Duncan's generous spirit is what cost him his life. Duncan, 42, was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States and the ...

CBS News - 10 Oct 2014Duncan carried the deadly virus with him from his home in Liberia, though he showed no symptoms when he left for the United States. He arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill several days later. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports from ...

Slate Magazine - 30 Oct 2014
By all accounts, Duncan acquired Ebola by performing an act of nobility and grace: He assisted a pregnant woman who was badly ill. He said from the start that he did not think she had Ebola but that she was simply suffering from pregnancy complications.

Huffington Post (blog) - 07 Oct 2014
The first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States is Thomas Eric Duncan. On September 20, 2014, Duncan, a Liberian national, arrived in Dallas. Reports indicate he came to marry his girlfriend. The couple has a son together. Duncan's case has ...

NBCNews.com - 03 Oct 2014
The stepdaughter of Texas Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan says she's worried about the kisses and hugs her children gave him over the weekend — even though he wasn't secreting any bodily fluids and had the strength to walk to the ambulance under ...